| Have you seen my article in Cake Craft Decoration Magazine this month – the April 2009 issue?
I visited Bonnie Gordon’s School of Confectionary Arts in Toronto about this time last year to teach the first classes in the new school premises – what a privilege! I had a fantastic time and met a whole host of very talented sugarcrafters. My article - Chalk ‘n’ Chocolate - gives a little bit of an insight into my interesting trip. Does any one recognise themselves? |
 Cake Craft & Decoration - April 2009 |
'Chalk 'n' Chocolate' Lindy's teaching trip to Canada
Of course publishing is publishing and its only possible to fit in so many words and pictures to one page, so here are some extra bits I thought you may also find interesting:
Teething problems, what new venture is free of these? In the case of Bonnie’s cake school it was the old pipe work from the toilets not being able to cope with the amount of use it was now being subjected to. For the students and I all this meant was a short welcome break out into the sunshine and down to Starbucks to use their facilities, top up on a latte and perhaps a cookie or cake and back to work. Of course for everyone else at Bonnie’s cakes and the shop below it was a little more dramatic!
I am sure that I often learn as much from the students when I travel as they learn from me, not just about the similarities and differences in the way we design, make and decorate cakes but also about how they live their lives, there perceptions, priorities and values. In Canada I learnt about the huge impact that the American Martha Stewart has on the wedding cake industry in Canada. From what I understand many Canadian brides see the Martha Stewart wedding magazines and want similar cakes, which is often not what talented cake designers from Toronto want to create.
For details of the teaching trips that I have planned this year please click here and follow the link, if you’d like me to visit your corner of the world then help make it happen!
Lindy
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